My Revision Notes: AQA AS/A-level History: Tsarist and Communist Russia, 1855-1964
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Introduction
1 Trying to preserve autocracy, 1855–94
Political authority and the state of Russia
Political authority and attempts at reform: emancipation of the serfs and its impact
Political authority and attempts at reform: Alexander’s other reforms
Government and Tsars: Alexander II, reaction and the emergence of opposition
Opposition: radical thinkers and populist opposition
Political authority in action: Alexander III, Russification and the treatment of national minorities, minority ethnic groups and Jewish people
Economic and social developments: industrial developments and the land question
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2 The collapse of autocracy, 1894–1917
Political authority, government and Tsar: Nicholas II and the 1905 Revolution
The October Manifesto and Duma government
Economic developments to 1914: industrial and agricultural growth and change
Social developments to 1914: the impact of industrialisation
Social divisions and cultural change
The growth of liberal opposition
Radical opposition
Political authority, opposition and the state of Russia in wartime, 1914–17
The collapse of Tsarist autocracy, February/March 1917, and the establishment of the Provisional Government
Lenin and the Bolshevik takeover, April–October 1917
The Bolshevik government and the suppression of opposition
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3 The emergence of communist dictatorship, 1917–41
Lenin’s Russia: ideology and change
Lenin and the consolidation of Bolshevik authority
Stalin’s rise to power and the establishment of dictatorship
Economic developments: from War Communism to the Five-Year Plans
Economic developments: industrialisation and collectivisation
Social developments: class, women and young people
Social developments: religion, minorities, propaganda and cultural change
Opposition: faction, terror and the purges
The Soviet Union by 1941
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4 The Stalinist dictatorship and reaction, 1941–64
The Soviet Union in wartime: Stalin, political authority and opposition
The Soviet Union in wartime: the economic and social impact
High Stalinism and the revival of terror
High Stalinism and the ‘cult of personality’
Political authority and government: Khrushchev, 1953–64
Economic developments, 1945–64
Social and cultural developments, 1945–64
Opponents of Khrushchev and his fall from power
The political, economic and social condition of the Soviet Union by 1964
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